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PalantirPalantirNew York, NY

Software Engineer - Mission Manager

Builds and evolves APIs and Kubernetes controllers for Palantir's Mission Manager PaaS, enabling secure software deployment in sensitive government environments. Requires 3+ years software experience, strong Go/Java skills, Kubernetes expertise, and US security clearance eligibility.

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Hybrid3+ YOEFullstack Engineering

About the role

Core Responsibilities

  • Work closely with forward deployed and customer engineers to understand product gaps and identify both short- and long-term product improvements and fixes
  • Engage with and internalize Palantir’s infrastructure strategy and the needs of our customer stakeholders
  • Deeply understand and leverage K8s primitives, the broader OSS ecosystem around K8s, and highly technical service lifecycle semantics to solve business critical problems at scale
  • Build and evolve the APIs through which in-house and customer software developers interact with K8s to satisfy their runtime needs, cleanly abstracting away the complex distributed systems powering them
  • Work closely with your team and stakeholders to enable sustainable and timely delivery of technical solutions to address business needs
  • Champion a long-term tech roadmap to reduce operational burden, ensure scalability, reduce risk, and strive for step-changes whenever possible

What We Value

  • Clear and concise verbal and written communications
  • A focus on impact and an ability to articulate the value your work provides
  • Confidence in troubleshooting complex systems issues independently using observability tools and service logs
  • Experience developing and managing highly-available distributed systems
  • Passion for designing thoughtful and robust APIs
  • Deep familiarity with K8s, and the broader ecosystem of software around K8s
  • Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance

What We Require

  • 3+ years of professional software development experience
  • 1+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
  • 1+ years of experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
  • Strong coding skills in Go, Java, or equivalent
  • Experience designing, building, and operating high-scale observability or infrastructure systems
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Skills

KubernetesGoJavaAPIsDistributed SystemsObservabilitySystem DesignMicroservicesOss Ecosystem

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